Chicken salad croissant
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0030223007890 · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Chicken salad croissant scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 77 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 77-component record, beginning with Chicken Salad, Chicken Breast, Chicken Breast Meat. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 77 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- D
- Nutri-Score nutrition grade
Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.
Composite profile score
One verdict from three independent sources
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
95/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
D
Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade
Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.
23007890 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Chicken salad croissant label screening desk
17 of 77 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 23007890 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.
This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.
The declared list is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 1,373 products we've scored in the Sandwiches category, the average safety score is 88.9/100. Chicken salad croissant scores 6.1 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 88.9/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Sandwiches products
Chicken salad croissant lists 77 ingredients on its label
77 92nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 92% of the 1,215 products we track
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Distribution as text
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Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026
Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 1,215 Sandwiches products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 77 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Chicken salad (chicken breast [chicken breast meat, water, seasoning {salt, maltodextrin, natural flavors, onion powder, yeast extract, garlic powder, canola oil, carrageenan, less than 2% silicon dioxide as an anti-caking agent}, sodium tripolyphosphate, salt], chicken salad base dressing [mayonnaise {soybean oil, eggs and egg yolks, water, vinegar, sugar, salt, lemon juice concentrate, natural flavor, paprika, calcium disodium edta (preservative)}, sour cream {cream, skim milk, modified corn starch, lactic and citric acid, beef gelatin, mono - and diglycerides, guar gum, carrageenan, sodium phosphate, natural and artificial flavor}, water, corn syrup. contains 2% or less of salt, sugar, mustard {water, distilled vinegar, mustard seed, salt, spice}, chicken base {chicken meat and natural chicken juices, salt, chicken fat, sugar, hydrolyzed (corn and wheat gluten, soy protein), dried whey, maltodextrin (from corn), autolyzed yeast extract, natural flavoring, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, natural extractives of turmeric and annatto (for color)}, dehydrated onion, artificial flavor, modified corn starch, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate {preservatives}], celery, red onion), croissant (enriched flour [wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], water, butter with natural flavor [pasteurized cream, natural flavor], high fructose corn syrup, contains less than 2% of each of the following: yeast salt, whey, calcium propionate preservative, wheat flour, enzymes, high oleic canola oil), green leaf lettuce.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Chicken salad croissant's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 77-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
- Compare Chicken salad croissant's 1 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
- Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0030223007890: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.